Wrist Rockets

desmobob said:

I have a concealed carry permit, but can't buy a slingshot...

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Sorry desmobob, but I couldn't help but laugh at that.

OMG this thread brings back memories. I used the be real good with wrist rocket. I would sit in the pine grove at my parents. And pop birds when they came in. I used small stones for ammo. I did buy a new one about 10 years ago. I should do some can pinking with it sometime.

I love my wrist rocket.
I have a near endless supply of 1/4-20 nuts, so I use them mostly. Used to use marbles, but the nuts have a flatter trajectory and are definitely moving faster.

for replacement bands, surgical tubing seems to last longer

This guy is pretty good with a slingshot...

Carrying it in my hunting pack is a great idea! Still have mine from the 70s, but bands are dried and broke. Haven't shot it in decades. I'm ordering parts!!! Got a month to practice...

troy fairweather said:

I keep one in my hunting pack for them pesky squirrels lol.

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Great idea!

Duster340 said:

Great idea!

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You really don't need to hit them it does scare them away, nothing worse then a squirrel barking at you when deer hunting lol.

I found out what my wrist rocket was: A Falcon.

armoredman said:

I haven't heard it called that since the 80s. Only one I ever had my mother confiscated.

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My parents figured anything that got me out of the house was a good thing. I haven't seen that slingshot in 10-15 years. Used it to dispatch a few pests but mostly for fun. I do have a replacement though...

When I was a youngster almost 60 years ago we made our own, forked stick and a piece of inner tube . I have one of the “wrist rockets” big improvement and a coffee can full of ball bearings (30 cal ish?)
I sit on my porch and shoot at a section of CO tank hanging from a chain on a walnut tree limb 25 yards away.
When I hit it I get a satisfying ring, when I miss it goes toward the creek bottom and doesn’t hurt anything.

Meeks36 said:

Had one just like that growing up. Only difference was mine was black. . .

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My regular non folding steel framed ones
are black ( powder coated?)

Ranger99 said:

My regular non folding steel framed ones
are black ( powder coated?)

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Mine was a folder. Cannot remember if it was powder coated or not. I know the thing is older then me. I believe my uncle used it growing up. Not 100% sure. But I love that thing. I could hit a can at 30 paces. A loooong time ago.

One of the things that Attracted me to my wife when courting was that she had a folding wrist rocket and a bag of steel ball bearings in her pack….. lower case survivalist love at first sight.

I like Marbles I buy at the Dollar store as they are cheap and seem to work well for plinking.

I found that neither marbles, lead .454 balls, nor 3/8 inch steel would penetrate a Coleman fuel can at ten feet with a full draw, but all dented it well enough I do not want to be shot with any of them.

-kBob

You guys need to wade through “The Sling Shot Channel” with Jorg on You Tube.

He used to actually post here ages ago.

-kBob

kBob said:

You guys need to wade through “The Sling Shot Channel” with Jorg on You Tube.

He used to actually post here ages ago.

-kBob

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I remember him here, he was surely infatuated with slingshots.

Had lots of great videos on making your own.

Ah, what fun. I haven't hunted with mine, just a lot of grandkid action. But they sure can smack hard!

I gave up the slingshot. With rabbits there was too much screaming and thrashing around, they didn't die quickly and I thought "Why the hell am I using a slingshot ?" For squirrels, a pellet rifle was easier.

I used to find a sapling with a fork, cut it off and add pieces of an old bicycle inner tube. They’ve come a long way.

74man said:

I would like to know how many people here are effecient with wrist rockets (slingshots)? I have two that I use an practice with about once a week.

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I can almost always hit the 35-gallon "burn barrel" from our back deck (about 30 yards) with mine. That's about as good as I've ever been. I use glass marbles.

JShirley said:

When I had one as a child, the preferred ammo was rocks my father would bring from work. The trains would grind them into nice, round rock projectiles.

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We would pick iron ore pellets at R/R Xings spilled from loaded train cars.
Decades ago.....................

Hickey nuts out of the husk work pretty good if there small that year. Good way to open them to lol.

Pretty sad Trumark is no longer. My favorite was the fixed arm brace model.

We just used bags of landscaping pebbles for target practice....and M80s (Firecracker). Kind of a grenade launcher for kids.

starling said:

M80s

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